21-12-2015 00:19 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Twitter account of pharmaceutical executive Shkreli hacked

(Reuters) - Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceutical executive facing U.S. charges of securities fraud, lost control of his Twitter account to hackers on Sunday, hours after he took to Twitter to plead his innocence, his spokesman said. "It was hacked," Craig Stevens, a spokesman for the former chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals, said in an email. "We have been working with Twitter to get it fixed." Shkreli, who gained notoriety this year when Turing hiked the price of an anti-infective drug of
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